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MAURICE FRISGHER, OF 94 HIGHBURY NEW PARK, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX,

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BISCUIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,507, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed November 29, l887. Serial No.256,4-20. (No specimens.) Patented in England December 15, 1887, No. 17,908.

0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, :MAURICE Fmsonna, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at St Ilighbury New Park, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented a new and useful Composition of Matter to be Used as a Preserved Food, of which the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in'the proportions stated, viz: Flour, fifty parts; common salt, two parts; pepper or paprika, 0.3 to 0.5 parts; garlic, finely ground, two parts; bullocks blood, four parts; eggs, one part.

The chief constituent of the, composition is llonr, the salt, pepper or paprika, and garlic being added for seasoning and flavoring,while the bullocks blood and egg serve to bind the ingredients together. If desired, the garlic may be dispensed with. The blood is taken from the slaughtered beast in a liquid state in a clean vessel, and well stirred therein, and immediately before being used is poured into another clean vessel. It should generally be used before the lapse of fortyeight hours from the time the beast was slaughtered. The various ii'igrediel'its, after being well kneaded together into a paste, are rolled into sheets of any convenient size and ofaboutthree millimeters in thickness. The sheets are then powdered with flour to prevent their sticking, after which they are preferably eutinto strips somewhat resembling the shape of maccaroni; or they may be ground down to any suitable degree of fineness.

One essential advan- 40 in preparing articles of preserved food-such 45 as water-crackcrs-and I am also aware that dog-biscuits are made, which consist of blood and meat chopped up fine and mixed with meal, and that blood enters largely into the composition of blood-puddings, which also are seasoned with pepper, but which are vol perishable. My food-composition is, however, intended for use as an army-biscuit. The blood and egg are used in small quantityto bind the flour together, so that the biseuitis not so friable as water crackers, which soon rub to cracker-dust if carried, and it is also far more palatable.

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America is- The hereinbeforedescribed army-biscuit, consisting of flour, common salt, pepper, garlic finely ground, bullocks blood, and egg, substantially in the proportions specified.

MAURICE F llSCHER.

\Vitnesses:

SHIRLEY BowonN, WALTER J. SKERTEN, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,L0mZon. 

